Arrival Of The Concubines - stage 1

I regret that I gave up on "Lonely Street" yesterday! I just didn't like it and I decided to cut my losses and start another painting, they can't all work out. I think it should have been a virtually monochrome tonal painting and the addition of colour just confused the composition - maybe I will come back to it one day and see if I can rescue it.
This painting, "Arrival Of The Concubines" will be all about atmosphere, a moonlit Orientalist picture of a boat arriving at a landing jetty with a version of Istanbul in the background. Hopefully an Orientalist Atkinson Grimshaw. This is the usual mix of Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple thinned with Liquin and turpentine applied with a rag on linen (something I rarely paint on).